Taylor, John W
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born March 26, 1784, in Charlton, N. Y. He was elected to the New York state legislature in 1811, and while in that body was elected to congress, where he served from 1813 to 1.833; and was speaker of the house for the second session of the sixteenth congress, during the passage of the Missouri compromise. He was also speaker of the nineteenth congress; and was a state senator in 1841 and 1842. He died Sept. 8, 1854, in Cleveland, Ohio.